Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-09
EDITORIAL NOTES.

! The State Senate yesterday confirmed the | ford as Labor Commissioner. There was no good reason why it shouldn't.
 It is evident that prohibition does not pro- ! hibit in Rhode Island any more than in I Maine. A petition signed by nearly four | hundred taxpayers of Providence and vicin $40, ,000, 900, for the resubmission of the pro- hibitory amendment to the people has been presented to the legislature.
 MT. Arthur L. Shumway, the western
 newspaper man who will be long and pleas antly remembered by our readers on account of his ''Round the World" letters, is going to enter the lecture field. If his lectures are as good as his letters, and there is every reason | to expect they will be, those who hear them will be excellently entertained and instruct ed. He is man of talent, which he knows we'll how to use. Success to him.
 The New York Commercial Advertiser is trying to invent way to prevent newspapers from being lost in the mails. As the post office regulations forbid any cautionary writ ing on the wrapper, the Commercial suggests that distinctive wrapper should be put on
 papers that habitually go astray and suggests that red would be suitable color to indicate
 that there was danger for the en4ploye who
 was responsible for non-delivery. Anything
 that would induce the postofics clerks to
 deal more accurately with news papers than
 they do would be great gain.
 A promising experiment. in cooperation is to be made at Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
 The great Cambria iron company, which em- ploys $500 persons, has decided to make it's
 Company store" cooperative concern. It sells $1 1000, 900 year in goods. The capital will be $20o, ,0Oo. Holdings by any one per son are limited. Dividends cannot go above 10 per cent. Stockholders have a first claim for per cent. Then all purchasers of $1O worth of goods have per cent. of; then the stockholders, il there is still further profit, may have their dividend raised to 10 per cent Above 10 per cent. all profit goes to customers in rebate on purchases.
 Of all the queer prayers which have lately been heard of that produced the other day 1 by Chaplain Allison of the Minnesota legis- lature is the queerest. Prayed he: And now, dear Lord, bless the reporters, whose nimble l pens catch our every word almost before it is ! uttered. Like Thyself they are omnipresent, and almost omnipotent. If we take the
 wings of the morning, and fly to the utter
 most parts of the earth, they are there. They
 meet us in the junsles of Africa, they way I lay us in the solitary csnons of Colorado, and when at length we find the latitude of the
 magnetic pole, behold, they are there. May
 their light and goodness be equal to their
 power, and in the general assembly of heaven
 let no reporter be excluded.
 l A bill to punish those who fraudulently use | trade marks has been introduced in the
 English parliament. The proposed law
 makes the possession of goods bearing fraud ulent trade marks prima facie evidence of intended fraud, and the burden of proof is
 thrown upon the possessors to demonstrate
 that the deception was not theirs, or that
 they were not accomplices of it. Those who
 aid in any way in the disposal of articles
 thus fraudulently marked, either by trans
 porting, advertising or displaying them, are
 held liable, unless they can show that they
 had no knowledge of their fraudulent char
 acter. And what is more, this law can bt
 invoked by both Englishmen and foreigners \ whose business has been in any way interfel